July 2021
Guddy Burnet, Standing Together.
This week, criteria for assessing the housing need of survivors of domestic abuse has undergone a sea change.
Viewpoint
July 2021
Cllr Joyce McCarty, Newcastle City Council.
HOMELESSNESS is always a crisis, whether someone has been homeless for a day or a year. Its impact ripples out far beyond the distress and damage done to the individuals and families who find themselves with no place to call their own.
Their communities also pay the price in a host of often hidden ways.
30 April 2021
Liz Atkins, Professor.
It’s exam season, but – for the second year running – not as we know it. After more than a year of disrupted studying, school students are now working their way through assessments on which GSCE and A Level grades will be based. But for students who have also had to struggle with poor housing through three lockdowns, the chances of success have always been slim.
May 2021
Clare Powell, Consultant.
I’m a strategic policy analyst and in my line of work we don’t often speak from the heart. It’s all about understanding new policy and the landscape into which it’s dropped; about thinking things through.
We celebrate key workers – why not the social housing so many need? Read More »
April 2021
Susmita Sen & Fokrul Hoque, Tower Hamlets Homes
We’re all talking about EDI, but do we really know what it actually looks like? Do we understand that it is not supposed to be a bolt-on, a tick-box exercise
March 2021
Chloe Fletcher, NFA
FINALLY, the government has published its response to the messages on Right to Buy that the housing sector sent them two years ago. I have been lobbying for change to the Right to Buy scheme for at least two decades and it is a relief to see some improvement to the way the policy works.
We’re all talking about EDI, but do we really know what it actually looks like? Do we understand that it is not supposed to be a bolt-on, a tick-box exercise
March 2021
Colin Wiles, Housing Consultant
The Spring Budget was all about propping up the housing market and supporting the housebuilders. It did next to nothing for affordable housing: in fact it will make affordable housing a receding prospect for many potential buyers
Out in the cold: Budget for Builders offers no hope to Generation Rent Read More »
3 March 2021
Maria Murphy, Derby Homes
Do local authority-owned companies that manage council homes still have a place in the social housing sector?
DO ALMOS matter much these days? At the turn of the millennium they were all the rage, separating council house management from day-to-day local authority work without taking significant assets out of public ownership.
August 2020
Ellie Patience, Your Homes Newcastle
THE REDUCTION of carbon emissions is neither optional nor a luxury. The UK has set itself the ambitious target of ending the country’s contribution to global warming by 2050 – and the biggest challenge it faces in achieving that begins at home.
THE REDUCTION of carbon emissions is neither optional nor a luxury Read More »
July 2020
Chloe Fletcher, NFA
Build, build, build, more social homes, is what we at the NFA along with our partners; ARCH, CIH, Crisis and the NHF are asking the government to do by placing #HomesAtTheHeart of the recovery plan.